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I've enjoyed them all, JK, but the scout stories are the best ones IMO.

Glenn
 
jackknife said:
Thanks guys for your replies. It looks like westerns and scouts stories are very popular. You all are sort of a target audiance if I go for the knife magazines. Knife world is a more folksy publication than most, with a slant toward the historical.

I'm sorry James, but Lizzy Rankin is going to have to go in a man's magazine or even adult publications.:( That was one very strange young lady.
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I recon I like all the stories you wrote in there entirety. So, if'n you leave Lizzy out of them, or any of the Rankin stories out for that matter, it would be a damn shame, and you'd be editing out your past,, IMO.

Hell anyways, just my lousey .02 cents worth.

All the best in any event.


Anthony
 
Late answer.

I have rereed some favorites. I realy gets tuched by the generation storys from real life and fiction.
Examples: The mother telling her son about secrets from a fathers life that should proudly be carried into new times or the grown son wanting to shoot and eat sossages for old times sake and new times to come. Or finding an old mans knife long lost and the memories it brings.
I also love the stories that goes back in time. Memories from old times through a older, more mature mans eyes. Persons from the past and things that happened in a world that almost dont exist anymore.

I also like the meetings in the posts with other people awoken by memories and tuched by storys comenting felings that your storys have created in the moment we read your storys. The storys are very wellmade but the true greatness is that they talk into my hart and mind and sets me in contact my own memories.

Bosse
 
Very good JK, I'd be very interested in reading some of your printed articles. I don't know how KW would be about fiction, but I'd like to see a recurring articles of knives in use over the years. Cowboy, spy, boyscouts, whatever, I know what I'd go for first when KW comes in the mail. I would like to see some of your work in Backwoodsman too.

A magazine to think about would be Grit, check it out.

http://www.grit.com/
 
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Frankly, jackknife, I think a better idea would be to just start your own blog and post the stories there. In time you'd reach a wider audience and (via Google adsense) make more money. Plus you'd never have to give up the rights to your work.

If I were you, I'd post all your old stories there and then - here on bladeforums - go back and replace each complete story with a brief snippet and a link over to the post on your blog where the story now resides.

Do the same with future stories. Post an announcement here and link over to your blog post.

Please don't get on humble on us, jackknife. In addition to being a damn fine read, your stories often have a message that - today more than ever - folks need to be reading. If you want some help setting this up, I'd be happy to pitch in. As with my previous offer of editing help, my fee is one beer if/when we ever cross paths. :thumbup:
 
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My favorite by far is the story of your Dad and his Peanut in post WWII Germany.
That one where he makes his way out of town to avoid capture. When he slits his coat to get a button compass...awesome story!
The one you posted this week is also great.
Billy
 
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